Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

These benefits are particularly important when it comes to ensuring success in creative thinking and innovation. To start an innovation project. Gamification can be used to kick off a project by identifying, defining and agreeing on challenges. To identify profiles for innovation projects.

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Creative Thinking Training Innovation Innovation Processes 53

Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Design Exercises 100

BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

I’m a great client because of all the creative thinking background and experience communicating with creative people. I’m horrible because I have just enough creative chops to do many things myself, which I’m not reluctant to do if a project isn’t quite working. That’s my creative advice. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2018

The article focused on dissecting mistakes to learn valuable lessons, similar to the oft-cited trade-off benefit in making more business mistakes: you will learn more things, faster. Actionable Learning: A comparable business situation involves regularly employing moonshot projects to boost innovation.

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Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 72

BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Even cynical types were openly surprised at the insights and learnings. It was what I’d imagined, as a child, that college would be like: a big group of friendly people who are genuinely excited about learning and doing good in the world. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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Conference Strategic Thinking Creativity Resources 74

BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

The cumulative impact is she no longer offers big creative ideas because there isn’t any point. Her learned reluctance to push bold creative ideas now creeps into other situations where she does have tremendous latitude to introduce bold ideas. It takes the creative joy out of side projects she does.

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Creativity Underperforming Technical Team Creative Thinking eBook 75

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting.

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Collaboration Creative Thinking Exercises Groups 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Here’s an alternative approach we use all the time during strategic conversations: listen for specific types of comments and organize them as you go (or after the fact) into strategic deliverables. For example, before a strategic planning workshop started the other day, an internal client leader held court with the project team.

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Underperforming Technical Team eBook Strategic Thinking Exercises 40

BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

Tomorrow, I’ll be closing the Nature Explore and The Outdoor Classroom Project Leadership Institute with a comparable message. It’s all about getting kids outside to experience nature, interact, and learn. Chuck Dymer and I presented to a group of logistics managers in Chicago last week.

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Creative Thinking Leadership eBook Creativity 43

BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

With the help of over 1200 individual and company backers, Vickie successfully raised $83k in 30 days on Kickstarter to fund the project. People were getting their projects everywhere, all over the interwebs, and then they were getting the education on how to make their projects through sites like Craftsy and CreativeLive, and now Brit + Co.,

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

For many, “future” is in fact a continuation of the immediate past and projections of near-term forces and trends that are easy to see and understand. Before this point, projecting forward from the present works well; what has happened in the immediate past is a pretty good indicator of what will happen next.

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Technical Review Trends Underperforming Technical Team Disruption 45

Idea Champions

JUNE 28, 2019

I can't wait to learn more from Idea Champions. Our success as a firm depends on our ability to think about tough challenges in new and creative ways, often on short timelines. The learnings from that session instantly changed the way we run our ideation sessions -- both internally and externally with our clients.

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Brainstorming Training Creativity Ideation 22

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

And then it’s back to the salt mines for me, but now the work I’m doing when I’m not at my day job includes several long-term projects, and we’re presenting workshops and keynotes at conferences in San Francisco and on an island off the coast of Georgia. Now it’s the fall of 2017.

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